"Canberra News, Views and Opinion"
[ 31 May, 2013; 8:00 pm; ] Canberra’s hottest bands and burlesque night, Tease and Tearaways, will be injecting you with its latest dose of live music and dance this May by bringing you the next in their event showcase – Leave Them With A S...
Shame shame! It’s fun to shout! Let’s shame some drivers shall we? If you see a parking attempt you think is worth a shaming at please send it to us at images@the-riotact.com. Remember to include the word parking in the subject and let us...
Rob, and I mix up the rugby ideas in Duxton, expound on matters rugby. The beer for review is the Forbidden Fruit Pear Cider. The music is by Fires in July. You can download it now. Our tips for this weekend are: Rob: crusaders, tahs, brumbies, forc...
Shane Rattenbury has annoucned that SITA Australia has won the contract to handle our garbage: A new contract has been awarded for the provision of domestic waste and recycling collection services in the ACT, Minister for Territory and Municipal Ser...
ACT Policing is now targeting road safety amongst heavy vehicle drivers and transport companies as part of Operation AUSTRANS. The operation is a joint effort across national police, transport and safety agencies which began yesterday (May 20) and w...
We all know that Captain Clinton is off to the Reds to see if he can break into the Wallabies at some stage, and I wish him luck because the Australian Rugby League selectores would not have been making a mistake by selecting Clinton. However, I’ve learned thast outside back Nathan Smith is of...
This movie, filmed at Jindabyne, is based on a Raymond Carver short story....
Another bloke – who’s currently under police guard at Canberra Hospital – is expected to be charged with GBH over the Cube incident. ...
The Canberra Times reports that the ongoing debacle of the Narrabundah longstay caravan park is nearing a conclusion. The pirates at Koomarri have profited mightily from selling the park they were given for $1 (after years of neglectful management of the park) and now the developer, Consolidated Bui...
The Canberra Times has a story on hard times in the restaurant industry as too many eateries struggle with not enough punters. They think 1/3 of restaurants are going to have to close to make the industry viable. ...
The Canberra Times is excited by the news of a stabbing outside Cube at 4.45am on Saturday morning. It’s sad to see knives coming in to the previously mostly harmless brawling of Civic. The victim is in a critical condition in hospital UPDATED: Loadedog reports on rumours it was the owner of C...
Over the course of a few weeks’ worth of radio quiz competitions, my friends and I had won three dinners for two, each to the value of $70 at Carlo’s. The only condition on the prize vouchers was that alcoholic drinks were not included. We decided to cash in our prizes for someone̵...
Free-Rain Theatre Company Wuthering Heights in August...
Today’s Council of Australian Governments Meeting may just have bought us a few extra hours of sunshine. New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT have agreed to talk to their voters about joining Tasmania in starting daylight saving on the first sunday in October, instead of the last Sunday. Trip...
The winner of the $74 million contract for building work on the National Portrait Gallery expansion has been announced. With the Questacon’s Garden of Wonder going up nearby it’s going to be a busy time next to the lake. I reckon the sundials etc next to Questacon are going to be great. ...
Mark Bannerman presents: * The disputed territory of Fyshwick. Was the auction fair? Terry Snow and Simon Corbell go head to head. * World War 2 flying ace, Clive Caldwell, finally gets his place in the sun. * The role played by Canberra in the seminal works of three of Australia’s greatest p...
The second tournament of Adventure Paintball’s inaugural paintball series was held last Sunday 9 Jul with over 40 players battling it out for cash, prizes and bragging rights. When the dust settled it was another victory to the ‘Copperhead’ Y fronts. A beautiful crisp day and pain...
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